Monday, March 27, 2006

Sequestering from the gimmish?

Sequestering from the gimmish? What does *that* mean?

I mean it's bad enough that we've got to learn and use terms like "aliquot", and "incubate", and "measure", but gimmish?

And how would one sequester something from this gimmish...

A few of the minor web dictionaries have it - but they seem to have it wrong...

gimmish - Irritating minutia, trivial nonsense, often used to minimize the importance of another's request or concern.

ex. Don't bother me with that gimmish right now. I'll finish the quarterly report after I'm done with this game of Tetris.


A cursory google search reveals that the sense in which this was meant was gimmish as "soup", as in "no gimmish for you"!

And sequestering from this gimmish has to mean to not add to this soup - to keep the other elements of the gimmish from corrupting this tender element.

Well, obviously the jury is still out on this one. But remember, if this phrase makes it big, you heard it here first - whatever it means.

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